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| Debbie Wasserman Schultz is old politics. Besides being an establishment member, her pro Israel stances, insider trading and Islamophobia is reason for a primary challenger. |
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Zionists are racists.
After seeing endless images of children being massacred, politicians openly cheering for destruction, inaction from our elected leaders, one would think that action is necessary. I mean these folks are getting tired of the status quo.
We need to abandon the Democratic Party. They are stuck on stupid when it comes to policies. They allowed the fascist Republicans take away women's rights, birthright citizenship and the safety net. They are more bothered over a Muslim nominee for mayor of the United States largest city.
They care less about children being killed by Israel. They more concerned with empty words instead of watching in real time people dying in these streets of the United States.
More Americans want the U.S. to cut Israel loose. The House of Representatives and U.S. Senate are not listening. They passed the Big Beautiful Bill and continue to fund Israel as it is actively leading the U.S. to World War III.
The time is now.
Reject the status quo.
Primary all the candidates who support Israel.
Arab Americans and Muslim voters should no longer consider the Democrats and Republicans as reliable to solve their issues.
President Donald J. Trump betrayed them.
Former president Joe Biden betrayed them.
It is time for voters to reject the status quo. We need for term limits for all members (as well as the Supreme Court), demanding members to produce results, rank choice voting and stopping older members from constantly running.
Three older Democratic members died this year.
Of the 212 members of the House Democrats, 136 members are still backing Israel despite Democratic voters strongly opposing that.
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| Zohran Mamdani must reject the noise. |
Over 65% of Democratic voters do not want Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Ken Martin and Gavin Newsom leading the party on messaging and policies.
A potential civil war is brewing in the U.S. thanks to Trump.
Over 70% of Democrats say the U.S. is nothing to be proud of. Many Democrats believe America is in decline.
It is time to primary Democrats who are more concerned with issues outside their district and state.
John Fetterman, Ritchie Torres, Josh Gottheimer, Jared Moskowitz, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries and Katherine Clark should be primaried. They are ineffective and too cozy with the apartheid ethnostate of Israel.
So The Hill reported that House members in the Democratic Caucus sound the alarm on Zohran Mamdani. He is the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor. He won on kitchen table issues and is favored to defeat incumbent mayor, independent Eric Adams.
Jewish Democrats on Capitol Hill are raising concerns about Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor, arguing that his refusal to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada” or recognize Israel as a Jewish state could be dangerous during the current moment of rising antisemitism in the U.S.
Mamdani, a self-described Democratic socialist, bested a crowded field of Democratic mayoral hopefuls last month on a message largely focused on affordability in the city. But his ascension has been accompanied by intense scrutiny of his statements related to Israel, including his support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, accusing Israel of apartheid after the Oct. 7 attack and stopping short of denouncing the saying “globalize the intifada” or calling Israel a Jewish state.
The latter two have sparked worries among Jewish Democrats in Congress — especially with Mamdani having a path to lead the city with the largest Jewish population in the country.
According to a source familiar with the matter, the situation has been a topic of discussion among the small group on Capitol Hill.
“To not be willing to condemn the term ‘globalize the intifada,’ it just demonstrates his callous disregard for antisemitism, terrorist activity… Anyone that I care about couldn’t possibly distance themselves from him more,” said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), who was the first Jewish woman elected to represent Florida in Congress. “It’s really terribly disturbing and potentially dangerous.”
“When you have a prominent candidate who is giving permission to use dangerous rhetoric that potentially incites violence and incites people and creates a permission structure to fan the flames of violence? That’s just completely unacceptable,” she added. “And how he doesn’t understand that shows me that he isn’t ready for prime time.”
Rep. Brad Schneider (D-IL), another prominent Jewish Democrat, said Mamdani is “either ignoring or gaslighting the public” when he said the phrase “globalize the intifada” is “a peaceful call.”
“I think he’s wrong on all those things,” echoed Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), who represents a part of Florida with a large population of Jewish individuals. “If he can’t tell people globalizing the intifada, if he can’t say that that’s antisemitic, then obviously he’s gonna continue to add to the problem, not deflate it.”
The response from New York’s Jewish Democrats on Capitol Hill was more tepid, however.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the dean of New York’s Congressional delegation in the House, endorsed Mamdani the day after Election Day.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY), meanwhile, issued carefully worded statements that stopped short of endorsing Mamdani.
Goldman, however, specifically said he, during a recent meeting with Mamdani, urged the candidate to make protecting Jewish individuals in New York City a priority.
“Zohran and I share a desire to lift up vulnerable New Yorkers and make the city more affordable and safe,” Goldman wrote in a statement. “To that end, I explained why Jewish New Yorkers feel unsafe in the City and that, as he continues this campaign, he must not only condemn anti-Jewish hate and calls for violence, but make clear that as Mayor he would take proactive steps to protect all New Yorkers and make us secure.”
The Hill reached out to Mamdani for comment.
Mamdani responded to the criticism at a press conference before the election, “There’s no room for antisemitism in this city and this country.”
“It pains me to be called an antisemite. It pains me to be painted as I’m somehow in opposition to the very Jewish New Yorkers that I know and love and that are such a key part of this city,” he said.
Mamdani, who is Muslim and was born in Uganda, set off a stir in New York City in mid-June when, during an interview on The Bulwark’s podcast, refused to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada,” which supporters view as Palestinians fighting for their rights and opposing Israeli occupation, but pro-Israel activists see as endorsing violence against Tel Aviv, with a signal towards Palestinian attacks on Israel in the late 1980s and early 2000s.
During the interview, Mamdani recognized antisemitism as “a real issue in our city,” but said he was “less comfortable with the idea of banning the use of certain words,” comparing such a move to tactics utilized by President Trump. Pressed again, he recognized the want among many to stand up for Palestinian human rights, later adding: “What we need to do is focus on keeping Jewish New Yorkers safe, and the question of the permissibility of language is something that I haven’t ventured into.”
During an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” after his campaign victory, Mamdani stuck to the same response when asked about the phrase by moderator Kristen Welker three times.
According to a poll released earlier this month by American Pulse, 30 percent of respondents said they were more likely to vote for Mamdani after learning of his position on BDS and the “globalize the intifada” phrase while 52 percent said they were less likely. The margin of error was plus or minus four percentage points.
Mamdani has also drawn some criticism for declining to call Israel a Jewish state. When asked if he believed in the Jewish state of Israel during the Democratic mayoral debate, Mamdani responded: “I believe Israel has the right to exist,” adding “as a state with equal right” when pressed. He stuck by that message during a subsequent interview on Good Day New York.
“It’s a huge problem,” Rep. Greg Landsman (D-OH), who has a tattoo written in Hebrew, said of Mamdani’s stances. “It is happening in the context of a violent surge in antisemitism. Two Jews murdered here in Washington, D.C., at an event that some of us would have gone to had we not been voting, and then in Boulder, where Jews were set on fire. And now this. It’s definitely something that we’re worried about.”
The concerns, to be sure, are not universal. In addition to Nadler’s endorsement, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), another prominent Jewish Democrat, urged his party to coalesce around their nominee, arguing that Mamdani should not be penalized for a slogan that he does not use.
“Our position is we’ve got to globalize human rights and peace and security for every nation and every people, and everything I’ve heard from him was consistent with that,” Raskin said. “Globalize the intifada is not his slogan.”
But Jewish individuals in the party are still raising alarm, warning that such stances are not satisfactory, especially for a prominent politician in a city with such a large Jewish population.
“Jewish Americans in New York and beyond are concerned about his position on Israel and his continued defense of this phrase, which we hear as a call to violence,” Halie Soifer, the CEO of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, told The Hill in an interview. “And at a moment of rising antisemitism, frankly it’s unacceptable for him to continue to defend this phrase if he wants to be mayor of the largest Jewish population of any city in the world.”
Let me summed this up for you. We got members of the House of Representatives more concerned with words not actions.
We have Democratic House members more concerned with Israel instead of their districts in New York, Florida, Ohio and Maryland.
We have members who know nothing about New York City voters. They are trying to reject the will of the voters who demand the Democratic Party lower the rent, lower the groceries, make transportation affordable and protect all its citizens.
They want "identity politics" when it comes to Jewish voters but rejection of everyone else with differences.
Jewish people are screaming antisemitism everywhere they go. It's getting old.
Antisemitism is now a joke.
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